Trump on Thursday downplayed the incident, telling reporters as he left the White House: "Could have been a mistake. Could have been a mistake."
He added: "But regardless, I’m not happy about anything having to do with that whole situation. But hopefully it’s going to come to an end."
Tusk on Friday wrote on X: "We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn’t. And we know it."
Early on Wednesday, Poland shot down drones in its airspace with the backing of military aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have fired shots during Russia's war in Ukraine, the Reuters news agency reported.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, who was in Kyiv on Friday, also responded to Trump’s comments.
"On the night that 19 Russian drones crossed into Poland, 400 drones plus 40 missiles crossed into Ukraine. Those were not mistakes," he said in a video posted on X.
Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk told broadcaster Polsat News: "There’s no question of a mistake—this was a deliberate Russian attack."
At Poland’s request, the UN Security Council was set to meet later on Friday in New York.
Poland’s UN envoy, Krzysztof Szczerski, said the session would begin at 3 p.m. local time.
Tusk on Thursday vowed that anyone seeking to attack Poland would face an "appropriate response."
Speaking after a meeting of the National Security Council in Warsaw, he said the breach of Polish airspace was Russia’s responsibility and that European allies viewed it as a shared concern.
Authorities said 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace overnight into Wednesday, prompting Polish and allied aircraft to take action.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message this week that his country's military "tracked the movement of Russian drones toward the Polish border" in the early hours of Wednesday.
He added that the incursion "was not an accident or a mistake, it was deliberate."
Zelensky also said that "Russia used both Ukrainian and Belarusian territory to enter Polish airspace."
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Source: IAR, PAP, Reuters, thehill.com